Advanced Search 
View: Side
Oil flask (lekythos) depicting seated youth
Greek, South Italian
Late Classical Period
360–350 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Italy, Apulia
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Barbara Deering Danielson
Accession Number1982.659
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Vase-Painting in Italy (MFA), no. 023.
DescriptionTrumpet mouth, short flaring neck, depressed globular body, base ring; handle from neck to shoulder. Intact.
On the body is a youth seated to left on a folded cloak, holding a cista in his right hand, a staff in his left. His wreath and the knots on his staff are in added white.
There is a palmette beneath the handle and one on either side of it. Rays circle the lower neck. The groundline is a band of dotted egg-pattern. The underside of the foot and the fillet between the foot and body are painted with added red.
(text from Vase-Painting in Italy, catalogue entry no. 23)
On the body is a youth seated to left on a folded cloak, holding a cista in his right hand, a staff in his left. His wreath and the knots on his staff are in added white.
There is a palmette beneath the handle and one on either side of it. Rays circle the lower neck. The groundline is a band of dotted egg-pattern. The underside of the foot and the fillet between the foot and body are painted with added red.
(text from Vase-Painting in Italy, catalogue entry no. 23)
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Charles Deering Collection; by date unknown: Barbara Deering Danielson Collection; gift of Barbara Deering Danielson to MFA, December 8, 1982